John Alba Cutler
Associate Professor
406 WheelerMW, 1-2 pm
jalbacutler@berkeley.eduSpecialties
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Chicanx and/or LatinxPoetry
Professional Statement
I specialize?in US Latino/a/x literatures, with special emphasis on modernism, poetry, and print culture.?My current project, “Latinx Modernism and the Spirit of Latinoamericanismo,”?examines the prodigious literary output of US Spanish-language serials in the early twentieth century. Daily newspapers, weekly magazines, literary reviews, and anarchist journals were the primary literary institutions for Latinx communities during this time period, publishing tens of thousands of original and reprinted poems, short stories, and
crónicas. This project illuminates an entire field of Latinx modernism that these periodicals sponsored at the intersections of Latin American and US Latino/a/x identity and thought.?My research has been supported by fellowships from the Alice B. Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Council of Learned Societies. I'm currently a member of the PMLA Advisory Committee and the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Board of Directors.
Books Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature?(Oxford, 2015) examines how Chicano/a (Mexican American) literary works represent assimilation, and what those representations can teach us about race, gender, and the nature of literary disco....(read more)
FIELDS:
Chicanx and/or Latinx
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
“Rubén Darío: Latino Poet,”?English Language Notes?56.2 (2018): 71-89.
“At the Crossroads of Circulation and Translation: Rethinking US Latino/a Modernism,”?Modernism/modernity?Print Plus volume 3, cycle 3 (2018):?https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0069
“Rosa Alcalá’s Aesthetics of Alienation,” in?American Poets in the 21st?Century: Poetics of Social Engagement, eds. Michael Dowdy and Claudia Rankine. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2018. 41-55.
“Borders and Borderlands Literature.”?The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, ed. Yogita Goyal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 157-73.
“Toward a Reading of Nineteenth-Century Latino Short Fiction,”?The Latino 19th?Century, eds. Rodrigo Lazo and Jesse Alemán. New York: NYU Press, 2016. 124-145.
“Quinto Sol, Chicano Literature, and the Long March Through Institutions.”?American Literary History?26.1 (Summer 2014): 262-294.
English Department Classes
spring, 2022
166AC/1
Special Topics in American Cultures: Racial Joy
Literatures in English
American Cultures
fall, 2021
190/11
Research Seminar: Latinx Modernism
Literatures in English
Chicanx and/or Latinx
Research Seminars
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